International Body Music Festival
Oakland, California, United States
"From all corners of the world...one joyful body" — National Geographic
The IBMF is a project of Crosspulse, an Oakland-based non-profit arts organization dedicated to the performance, recording and education of cross-cultural rhythmic arts. The IBMF is produced in the San Francisco Bay Area every two years, and by our international partners in the interim years. The IBMF features contemporary and traditional Body Music presented in Concerts, Workshops, Teacher Trainings, Lecture-Demonstration, Body Music Open-Mic, Family Matinee, & in-school Assembly Programs.